Call for Papers
(research track and industry track)

ICSOC is the top international forum for academics, industry researchers
and developers to report and share groundbreaking works in
service oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community
scientific excellence by gathering experts from various
disciplines, such as business process management, distributed
systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile computing, cloud
computing, networking, scientific workflow, service science,
management science, and software engineering.

ICSOC 2013 will bring together scientists, engineers, and
practitioners from multiple disciplines to focus on
service-oriented, cloud-based, innovative enterprises
ready for the 21st century. The conference will feature research and industry
presentations, prestigious keynote presentations, workshops,
demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track. Please refer to
www.icsoc.org for more details about these associated events.

Topics of Interest

ICSOC 2013 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including
theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as practical and
industrial experiences -- with emphasis on results that solve
open research problems and have significant impact on the field
of service-oriented computing.

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Service Engineering

Service Design

Service Description

Service-Oriented Architecture

Service Composition

Theoretical Foundations

Service Engineering Methods

Testbeds for Service Concepts and Technologies

Semantic Web Services

RESTful Web Services

Service Change Management

Service Discovery and Mining

Service Customization

Service Governance

Service Operations and Management

Management Processes and Methods

Managing Service Infrastructure

Quality of Service

Security, Privacy and Trust

Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services

Execution and Resource Allocation Services

Web as a Platform

Services in the Cloud

XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)

Service Integration and Orchestration on the Cloud

Cloud Service Management

Decentralized Cloud Platform Architectures

Software Engineering Models, Methods and Methodologies for XaaS

Cloud Workflow Management

Cloud Brokers and Coordination across Multiple Resource Managers

Services in Organizations, Business and Society

Social Networks and Services

Human-provided and Outsourcing of Services

Business Service Modeling

Business Process Modeling

Costs and Pricing of Services

Service Marketplaces

OpenAPI

Service Applications and Implementations

Grid and Scientific Computing Services

Pervasive and Mobile Services

Services for Big-Data

Embedded and Real-time Services

Services in Specific Application Domains

Domain-Specific Services

Data- and/or compute-intensive applications

Paper Submission

The conference solicits outstanding original research and
practice papers on all aspects of service-oriented, cloud-based
computing. Papers should clearly demonstrate the research or
practical contribution, the relevance to the field, and the
relation to prior work. Submitted papers will be evaluated
according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical
quality, and exposition. All papers will be peer reviewed.

Prospective authors must submit abstracts prior to submitting
full papers. Full papers are not to exceed 15 pages including
all references and figures. All papers must be prepared in the
Springer LNCS format and be submitted electronically in PDF to
the conference submission system
(https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2013).

Best Paper Award

The award will be given to the paper submitted to the
conference as judged by the program committee.